Intellectual disability
Subtitle: understanding its development, causes, classification, evaluation, and treatment
By: James C. Harris
Series: Developmental perspectives in psychiatry
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 429
Subjects: Mental retardation; Developmental disabilities
Description: "Intellectual Disability provides a developmental approach for the assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of persons with intellectual disability throughout the life span. Moving away from the older concept of mental retardation, which implies a static condition, this book focuses on intellectual disability as a dynamic and changing condition where early diagnosis and intervention matter and make a difference in long-term outcome. It highlights the importance of fluid intelligence and adaptive problem solving to facilitate cognitive development and self-determination throughout the developmental period."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: Origins, changing concepts, and legal safeguards; title: The classification of intellectual disability; title: Epidemiology: who is affected?; title: Etiology and assessment; title: Understanding and evaluating emotional and behavioral impairment; title: Genetics, behavior, and behavioral phenotypes; title: A lifespan developmental approach; title: Family, behavioral, interpersonal, psychoeducational, pharmacologic and community interventions; title: Ethics and spirituality